# Deaths in February 2003
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2003.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## February 2003
### 1

* Anne Burr, 84, American actress (Native Son, The Hasty Heart, As the World Turns).
* Bodil Kjer, 85, Danish actress.
* Adalberto Ortiz, 88, Ecuadorian writer.
* Mongo Santamaría, 85, Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.
* Nancy Whiskey, 67, Scottish folk singer ("Freight Train").
* Crew of STS-107 killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster:
** Michael P. Anderson, 43, American, payload commander.
** David M. Brown, 46, American, mission specialist.
** Kalpana Chawla, 40, American, mission specialist.
** Laurel Clark, 41, American, mission specialist.
** Rick Husband, 45, American, commander.
** William C. McCool, 41, American, pilot.
** Ilan Ramon, 48, Israeli, payload specialist.

### 2

* Randy Chin, 65, Jamaican record producer, diabetes.
* Tom Edmunds, 77, Australian politician.
* József Gál, 84, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
* Lou Harrison, 85, American composer, noted for his microtonal works, heart attack.
* Jack Lauterwasser, 98, English racing cyclist and cycling engineer, fall at home.
* Richard C. Lee, 86, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
* Marcello Truzzi, 67, American professor of sociology, cancer.
* Emerson Woelffer, 88, American abstract expressionist artist and teacher.
* Eizo Yuguchi, 57, Japanese football player, stomach cancer.

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* Fulgencio Berdugo, 84, Colombian football player.
* Natascha Artin Brunswick, 93, German-American mathematician and economist.
* Lana Clarkson, 40, American actress (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Scarface, Barbarian Queen), shot by record producer Phil Spector.
* Venanzo Crocetti, 89, Italian sculptor.
* João César Monteiro, 64, Portuguese film director, actor, writer and film critic, lung cancer.
* Trevor Morris, 82, Welsh footballer and World War II pilot.
* Peter Schat, 67, Dutch composer, cancer.

### 4

* Charles McLaren, 3rd Baron Aberconway, 89, British industrialist and horticulturalist.
* Benyoucef Benkhedda, 82, Algerian politician, head of Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (1961–1962).
* Charlie Biddle, 76, American-Canadian jazz bassist, played with Thelonious Monk and Charlie Parker.
* Jean Brossel, 84, French physicist and modern quantum optics pioneer.
* Pierre Carteus, 59, Belgian football player.
* Jerome Hines, 81, American operatic bass.
* Qalandar Momand, 72, Pakistani poet and writer.
* James Needs, 83, British film editor.
* André Noyelle, 71, Belgian road racing cyclist (1952 Olympic gold medals: individual road race, team road race).
* Jaroslav Šajtar, 81, Czech chess master.

### 5

* Guillermo González Calderoni, 54, Mexican Federal Judicial Police official, murdered.
* René Cardona Jr., 63, Mexican filmmaker and actor.
* Micky Fenton, 89, England football player.
* Larry LeSueur, 93, American journalist, Parkinson's disease.
* Antonina Shuranova, 66, Russian stage, television and film actress.
* Joseph P. Vigorito, 84, American politician (U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 24th congressional district).
* Manfred von Brauchitsch, 97, German auto racing driver, winner of three Grand Prix races in the 1930s.

### 6

* Eric Ashby, 85, English naturalist and wildlife cameraman.
* José Craveirinha, 80, Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet.
* Arthur Doherty, 71, Irish politician.
* René Haby, 83, French politician.
* Robert William St. John, 100, American author, broadcaster, and journalist.
* Peter Saunders, 91, British theatre impresario.

### 7

* Augusto Monterroso, 81, Honduran writer, heart failure.
* Amalia Nieto, 95, Uruguayan painter, engraver and sculptor.
* Malcolm Roberts, 58, English pop singer, heart attack .
* Stephen Whittaker, 55, British actor and director (Nicholas Nickleby, Sons and Lovers), complications following surgery.

### 8

* Alfred Aston, 90, French football winger and manager.
* William Louis Culberson, 73, American lichenologist, cancer.
* John Charles Cutler, 87, American surgeon.
* K. K. Soundar, 78, Tamil film actor.
* Alice Treff, 96, German film actress.
* Konrad Weichert, 68, German Olympic sailor (bronze medal in 1968 Dragon, silver medal in 1972 Dragon).

### 9

* Herma Bauma, 88, Austrian javelin thrower (gold medal in women's javelin throw at the 1948 Summer Olympics).
* Ruby Braff, 75, American jazz trumpeter and cornetist.
* Masatoshi Gündüz Ikeda, 76, Japanese-Turkish mathematician.
* Ken McKinlay, 74, British speedway rider.
* Billy Parker, 61, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.
* Vera Ralston, 82, Czechoslovakian-American figure skater and "B" actress, star of ice capades, cancer.

### 10

* Chuck Aleno, 85, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
* Ralph Beard, 73, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Antoni Czubiński, 74, Polish historian.
* Edgar de Evia, 92, American photographer pneumonia.
* Antoinette Feuerwerker, 90, French jurist and member of the French Resistance during World War II.
* Curt Hennig, 44, American professional wrestler, drug overdose.
* Lars-Eric Kjellgren, 84, Swedish screenwriter and film director.
* José Lewgoy, 82, American-Brazilian actor.
* Clark MacGregor, 80, American politician and congressman (1961–1970).
* Robert Rush Miller, 86, American zoologist and ichthyologist.
* Walter Thomas James Morgan, 102, British biochemist.
* Max Pécas, 77, French filmmaker, writer and producer, lung cancer.
* Jan Veselý, 79, Czechoslovakian cyclist (men's individual road race, men's team road race at the 1952 Summer Olympics).
* Ron Ziegler, 63, former press secretary for Richard Nixon during the Watergate Scandal, heart attack.

### 11

* Socorro Avelar, 77, Mexican actress, stomach cancer.
* Arndt Bause, 66, German composer, pulmonary embolism.
* Marc Iliffe, 30, British strongman, suicide by hanging.
* Daniel Toscan du Plantier, 61, French film producer, heart attack.
* Moses Hogan, 45, American composer and arranger of choral music, brain cancer.
* Luke Chia-Liu Yuan, 90, Chinese-American physicist and grandson of Yuan Shikai.

### 12

* Wally Burnette, 73, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
* Michel Graillier, 56, French jazz pianist.
* Vali Myers, 72, Australian artist, cancer.
* Devendra Satyarthi, 94, Indian folklorist and writer.
* Jeanne Stuart, 94, British stage and film actress.
* Haywood Sullivan, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Kansas City Athletics) and owner (Boston Red Sox), stroke.
* Dick Whitman, 82, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies).
* Kemmons Wilson, 90, American businessman, founder of Holiday Inn.

### 13

* Joe Connelly, 85, American television and radio scriptwriter.
* James Thomas Flexner, 95, American historian and biographer.
* Kid Gavilán, 77, Cuban world boxing champion, heart attack.
* Robert Ivers, 68, American actor.
* Axel Jensen, 71, Norwegian author, ALS.
* Stacy Keach, Sr., 88, American actor (Pretty Woman, Teen Wolf, The Parallax View).
* Stuart Keith, 71, British-American ornithologist.
* Leonor Llausás, 73, Mexican actress, heart attack.
* Walt Whitman Rostow, 86, American political advisor.

### 14

* Dolly, 6, the world's first cloned mammal, euthanization following a lung disease.
* Gunnar Johansson, 78, Swedish football player and manager.
* Johnny Longden, 96, American jockey.
* Paul E. Meehl, 83, American clinical psychologist.
* Grigory Mkrtychan, 78, Soviet and Russian ice hockey goalkeeper.
* Archie Savage, 88, American dancer, choreographer, and film and theatre actor.

### 15

* Vincent Apap, 93, Maltese sculptor.
* Alexander Bennett, 73, British ballet dancer, teacher and ballet master, principal dancer with the Royal Ballet.
* Miroslav Horníček, 84, Czech actor, writer, director, and artist.
* H. Dale Jackson, 72, American Baptist minister.
* Vlastimil Koubek, 75, Czech-American architect, cancer.
* Roberto Leydi, 74, Italian ethnomusicologist.
* Fritz Pollard, 87, American athlete and Olympic medalist.
* Francisque Ravony, 60, Malagasy lawyer and politician, heart attack.
* Joaquín Solano, 89, Mexican Olympic medalist in equestrianism.
* Richard Wilberforce, Baron Wilberforce, 95, British judge.

### 16

* Philip John Gardner, 88, British recipient of the Victoria Cross.
* Jim Gordon, 76, American television and radio newscaster, cancer.
* Abu Ishaque, 76, Bangladeshi novelist.
* Rusty Magee, 47, American composer of musicals, cancer.
* Aleksandar Tišma, 79, Serbian novelist.

### 17

* Steve Bechler, 23, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), ephedra overdose.
* Julian Bigelow, 89, American computer engineer, built one of the first digital computers (IAS machine).
* Allen Britton, 88, American music educator, contributed to the history of music pedagogy.
* Pete Schrum, 68, American actor.

### 18

* Quentin Anderson, 90, American literary critic and cultural historian (Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman), heart attack.
* Ittla Frodi, 72, Swedish actress, writer and producer.
* Isser Harel, 90/91, Israeli spymaster and director of the Mossad.
* Beth Marion, 90, American B-movie actress, stroke.

### 19

* Washington Beltrán, 88, Uruguayan politician, President (1965–1966).
* Buck Divecha, 75, Indian cricket player.
* Igor Gorbachyov, 75, Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue.
* James Hardy, 84, American pioneer surgeon.
* Tanya Moiseiwitsch, 88, English theatre designer.
* Johnny Paycheck, 64, American country music singer, pulmonary emphysema.

### 20

* Maurice Blanchot, 95, French writer, philosopher and literary theorist.
* Orville Freeman, 84, American politician, Governor of Minnesota and Secretary of Agriculture, Alzheimer's disease.
* Harry Jacunski, 87, American gridiron football player (Green Bay Packers).
* Ty Longley, 31, American guitarist for the heavy metal band Great White; victim in the Station nightclub fire.
* Mushaf Ali Mir, 55, Pakistan statesman and air force general, plane crash.
* Golam Mustafa, 67, Bangladeshi actor and reciter.
* Jerzy Passendorfer, 79, Polish film director and member of parliament.
* Robert Grier Stephens, Jr., 89, American politician.
* Peter Tewksbury, 79, American film and television director.

### 21

* Virginia Biddle, 92, American revue performer, showgirl, and nude model, complications following car accident.
* Jim Courtright, 88, Canadian Olympic track and field athlete.
* John E. Fryer, 65, American psychiatrist and gay rights activist, pneumonia.
* Tom Glazer, 88, American folk singer and songwriter.
* Karel Kosik, 76, Czech marxist philosopher.
* Nelly Mazloum, 73, Egyptian actress, dancer, and choreographer.
* Nora Ney, 96, Polish film actress.
* Kevin O'Shea, 77, American basketball player.
* Rusty Peters, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns).
* Eddie Thomson, 55, Scottish football player and coach, lymphoma.

### 22

* Kurt Gscheidle, 78, German politician.
* Donald Haldeman, 55, American sport shooter and Olympic gold medalist.
* Jean-Pierre Miquel, 66, French actor and theatre director, cancer.
* Daniel Taradash, 90, American screenwriter (From Here to Eternity, Hawaii, Storm Center), Oscar winner (1955), pancreatic cancer.

### 23

* Shlomo Argov, 73, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador of Israel to the United Kingdom.
* Howie Epstein, 47, American bass player for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, drug overdose.
* Christopher Hill, 91, British historian.
* Pavel Lebeshev, 63, Soviet and Russian cinematographer.
* Robert K. Merton, 92, American sociologist.
* Marcel Prawy, 91, Austrian dramaturg and opera critic.
* Hasanagha Turabov, 64, Azerbaijani and Soviet actor.
* Titos Vandis, 85, Greek actor (The Exorcist, Fletch Lives, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman), cancer.

### 24

* Alex Cameron, 65, American English professor and pronouncer of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
* Al Hibbs, 78, American mathematician and physicist known as "The Voice of JPL".
* Susan Johnson, 75, American actor and singer, pulmonary emphysema.
* Sam King, 91, English golfer.
* Bernard Loiseau, 52, French chef, suicide by gunshot.
* Walter Scharf, 92, American film composer, heart failure.
* Alberto Sordi, 82, Italian comedy actor, heart attack.
* Antoni Torres, 59, Spanish footballer, cancer.
* Güven Önüt, 63, Turkish football player.

### 25

* Alexander Kemurdzhian, 81, Armenian scientist and aerospace engineer.
* John Lecky, 62, Canadian sport rower.
* Eric Marsh, 82, English cricket player.
* Tom O'Higgins, 86, Irish Fine Gael politician, barrister and judge.
* René Römer, 73, Dutch academic and Governor of the Netherlands Antilles (1983-1990).

### 26

* Harold Amos, 84, American microbiologist and professor, chairman of Harvard Medical School bacteriology department.
* Brian Evans, 60, Welsh football player, cancer.
* Akira Fujiwara, 80, Japanese historian.
* Christian Goethals, 74, Belgian racing driver.
* Jaime Ramírez, 71, Chilean football player.

### 27

* Johnny Carpenter, 88, American film actor, screenwriter and producer, cancer.
* Charles Knott, 88, English cricket player.
* John Lanchbery, 79, British-Australian musician.
* Wolfgang Larrazábal, 91, Venezuelan naval officer and politician.
* James D. Nichols, 74, American horse racing jockey, rode in seven U.S. Triple Crown races.
* Peter Petroff, 83, Bulgarian-American inventor, engineer, NASA scientist, and adventurer.
* Fred Rogers, 74, American television (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood).
* Othar Turner, 95, American fife player.

### 28

* Albert Batteux, 83, French football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
* Alfred Bernstein, 92, American civil rights, civil liberties and union activist.
* Göte Blomqvist, 75, Swedish ice hockey player (bronze medal in ice hockey at the 1952 Winter Olympics).
* Chris Brasher, 74, British track and field athlete (gold medal in men's 3000m steeplechase at the 1956 Summer Olympics).
* Jacob E. Davis, 97, American politician.
* Dinos Dimopoulos, 81, Greek film director.
* Jim Fridley, 78, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Redlegs).
* Fidel Sánchez Hernández, 85, former President of El Salvador, heart attack.
* Yō Inoue, 56, Japanese voice actress (Mobile Suit Gundam, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Gordian Warrior), lung cancer.
* Rudolf Kingslake, 99, English academic, lens designer, and engineer.
* Major Sundarrajan, 67, Indian actor and director.